Childhood conduct problems and parent-child talk during social and nonsocial play contexts: a naturalistic home-based experiment.

ABSTRACT: Parent-child interactions are a critical pathway to emotion socialization, with disruption to these processes associated with risk for childhood behavior problems. Using computational linguistics methods, we tested whether (1) play context influenced parent-child socioemotional language, and (2) child conduct problems or callous-unemotional traits were associated with patterns of socioemotional or nonsocial language across contexts. Seventy-nine parent-child dyads (children, 5-6 years old) played a socioemotional skills ("social context") or math ("nonsocial context") game at home. We transcribed and analyzed game play, which had been audio recorded by participants. The social context elicited more socioemotional and cognitive words, while the nonsocial context elicited more mathematical w

SUBMITTER: Sun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10781972 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature